Perhaps "stupid" is not the word you would want to use, and you don't want
to put it into a negative light, for there is no faster way to get a door
shut in your face than to start off the conversation with, "Hi! I want
to let you know that you're an idiot because...".
Try something along the lines of "You know, there's a lot of FreeBSD/
NetBSD/Linux users out here and we'd like to port NetScape to this
environment because we find it useful."
Of course, since NetScape is *NOT* freeware in any sense of the word,
they may well be justified in their negative response to our good
intentions unless you get together a specific team of programmers and
have them all sign on a non-disclosure agreement.
#define AUTHOR "seebs@intran.xerox.com (Peter Seebach)"
/*
* Everyone, start mailing netscape, explaining how stupid* they are to not
* support NetBSD and Linux. If we do this enough, they may give us the
* port. (I'd assume; they can't be *that* stupid, can they? And an
* X app that runs on several systems, including SunOS, is going to be an
* easy port.)
*
* -s
*
*
*
*/
#undef AUTHOR /* "seebs@intran.xerox.com (Peter Seebach)" */
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